Archive for January, 2014

Infinite series: When the sum of all positive integers is a small negative fraction.

Friday, January 17th, 2014

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/17/infinite_series_when_the_sum_of_all_positive_integers_is_a_small_negative.html

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood – Atlantic Mobile

Friday, January 17th, 2014

.@kdnuggets 77K genres from auto. & manual methods like
gene-classification approaches. How $NFLX Rev. Eng. Hollywood http://theatln.tc/1cKP4gx

http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/

Is Microsoft extending Windows XP malware support because it can’t bear to say goodbye?

Friday, January 17th, 2014

QT:{{”
about 29 percent of desktops are running XP right now.
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.@razibkhan Amazing: XP 30% OS share yet won’t be supported. Is $MSFT extending…support b/c it can’t bear…goodbye
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/16/is_microsoft_extending_windows_xp_malware_support_because_it_can_t_bear.html

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=M

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/16/is_microsoft_extending_windows_xp_malware_support_because_it_can_t_bear.html

Many Paths to the Origin of Life

Friday, January 17th, 2014

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6168/259

Startup FirstFuel revs up with funding for energy data analytics — Tech News and Analysis

Friday, January 17th, 2014

http://gigaom.com/2013/12/10/startup-firstfuel-revs-up-with-funding-for-energy-data-analytics/?utm_content=bufferb7b90&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Is Microsoft extending Windows XP malware support because it can’t bear to say goodbye?

Friday, January 17th, 2014

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/16/is_microsoft_extending_windows_xp_malware_support_because_it_can_t_bear.html

Can Silicon Valley VC Apply Lessons From Uber To Disrupt Fortified Healthcare Incumbents? – Forbes

Friday, January 17th, 2014

.@jflier I’d bet on inside disrupters more than outside ones. Can An Uber Investor Bring… Disruption To
#Healthcare?http://onforb.es/1itsWsy

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2014/01/10/can-an-uber-investor-bring-silicon-valley-disruption-to-healthcare/

U.S. Budget Deal Should Help Shelter Science From Sequester—For a While | Science/AAAS | News

Friday, January 17th, 2014

http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2013/12/u.s.-budget-deal-should-help-shelter-science-sequester%E2%80%94-while

I’ve Been Using Tags All Wrong

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

.@florisvaneck Has to be an optimal way to do this. I’ve Been Using #Tags All Wrong
http://lifehacker.com/ive-been-using-tags-all-wrong-1498663444 My system: http://blog.gerstein.info/2010/11/my-tagging-philosophy.html

Evgeny Morozov: Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution : The New Yorker

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

#Hackers, #Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution: Homebrew
Computer Club (or DIY) of the future? http://nyr.kr/L3OXDg HT
@adrogersam

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/01/13/140113crat_atlarge_morozov

A CRITIC AT LARGE

MAKING IT

Pick up a spot welder and join the revolution.

BY EVGENY MOROZOV

JANUARY 13, 2014